Re: Sociological/Psychological Phenomenon

From: Timothy Little (tim-usenet_at_little-possums.net)
Date: 06/01/05 

Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 23:14:31 +0000 (UTC)

Pubkeybreaker wrote:
> Clearly these people are looking for fame for solving some famous
> problem. But they do not seem to look for fame by (say) semi-serious
> efforts to cure disease.... They know they lack skills for the
> latter.

To the contrary, I would guess that there are vastly more people who
believe they can cure diseases by various sorts of self-developed or
partially self-developed quackery, than who believe they can solve
some famous mathematical problem.

- Tim